Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
India got its first hybrid car on Wednesday with Honda rolling out a petrol-electric version of its Civic sedan. The car will be more eco-friendly and fuel efficient (for its class) than any other in the market but will remain a niche product. The reason? The Civic hybrid has come …
Japanese car major Honda on Wednesday launched its first hybrid car in India, Civic Hybrid, priced at Rs 21.5 lakh. Masahiro Takedagawa, president and CEO of Honda Siel Cars India told reporters, the high price tag was partially due to the 104 per cent customs duty on the vehicle. The …
It is a coming of age for the small car. Just as India and the world focus on ultra-cheap cars, the original small car seems to be acquiring a big status globally as more and more people choose to drive small. Importantly, the trend is catching up in Europe and …
Chanchal Pal Chauhan NEW DELHI THE impact of the imposition of the specific excise duty on big cars will be more than originally anticipated. From Monday, bigger cars and SUVs will be dearer by Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000, as auto companies finalise their price tags to adjust the burden …
Vehicles above 1500-1999 cc face duty of Rs. 15,000 Those with 2000 cc and above will cost Rs. 20,000 more In a firm move to discourage fuel guzzlers on the road in the wake of rising fuel prices, the government on Friday imposed a stiff additional excise duty of about …
India has introduced a fuel-guzzler tax, making heavyweights of the road heavier on your pocket. Big cars will cost Rs 15,000-20,000 more with the Centre slapping an additional excise duty in what officials claimed was an attempt to discourage fuel consumption and emission. The levy, which will help the government …
Pradeep Gooptu & S Kalyana Ramananthan / Singur/ Chennai June Even as Tata Motors is racing against time to get its new Singur plant near Kolkata ready for commercial roll-out of the Nano by October 2008, the company may be needing an out-of-the box solution to overcome some delays in …
Opens factory at Ambattur to produce 100 bikes daily CHENNAI: Tube Investments of India (TII), a part of the Rs. 9,582-crore Murugappa Group, has announced its foray into eBikes by kick-starting its factory at Ambattur here. M. M. Murugappan, Chairman, TII, on Thursday, inaugurated the eBikes factory. The factory would …
France and Germany yesterday buried a disagreement over future European Union targets for car emissions, which had threatened a clash between the two partners just three weeks before Paris is to take over the EU's rotating presidency. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy used a regular French-German cabinet meeting …
Forms team to keep costs closer to the small car's sale price of Rs 1 lakh. Tata Motors may charge the losses on its small car Nano, the world's cheapest car at Rs 1 lakh, against the profit it earns from selling trucks, according to industry analysts. Chairman Ratan Tata …
UK registrations of 4x4 vehicles tumbled by more than 18 per cent last month in a powerful sign that Europeans are joining the headlong scramble out of large gas-guzzlers seen in the US. The data from Europe's second largest car market mirrors collapses in largevehicle sales under way in other …
INGOLSTADT: As per international media reports, Audi A1 supermini is expected to go on sale in March 2010. The company's secret documents were leaked which has indicated that the car would be on sale in 2010. Also international media has reported Audi A1's new line-up of four-cylinder launch engines. The …
The steep hike in fuel prices will cause a dent of Rs 20 crore in the coffers of the BEST per year. However, the undertaking does not intend to tax BEST commuters any further with higher fares. "There would be no increase in the BEST bus fares,' said Uttam khobragade, …
Companies May Lower Tags, Offer More Discounts To Offset Impact The hike in petrol, diesel prices will fuel a slowdown in the auto industry in the short-term, feel car majors like Maruti, Hyundai and Honda. And, it may spell good news for consumers in terms of lower prices and greater …
For prospective car buyers, there could be a silver lining in the steep fuel price increase announced on Wednesday. Carmakers, already reeling under the signs of a downturn in sales, may be forced to sweeten the discounts and freebies to pull customers to showrooms, reports Pankaj Doval. As companies complained …
Wilmington: General Motors Corp on Tuesday said it was closing four truck plants and could sell its Hummer brand to cut slow-selling trucks and SUVs from its lineup in response to higher gasoline prices the automaker now sees as a permanent threat to its business. CEO Rick Wagoner, speaking after …
Far from being a celebration, General Motors' 100th year in business is turning out to be one of the most wrenching in its long history. The Detroit-based company lost its spot as the world's biggest carmaker Toyotalast month, after hanging on to it by the narrowest of margins last year. …
Signs Long-Term Agreements With Ford For Future Support In Major Areas Tata Motors finally got the keys for Jaguar and Land Rover, the two British marques it acquired from Ford for $2.3-billion, and announced long-term partnership agreements with the US auto major for future support. The company, that earlier this …
Should private diesel cars be taxed more than petrol cars to neutralize the subsidy they get on retail fuel prices, originally kept low for benefiting commercial vehicle operations like public transport vehicles and goods carriers that have a direct bearing on inflation. Noted industrialist Vivek Bharatram has suggested the government …
